Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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Keep looking for other treasures. That was a golden treasure. Thanks for posting it!
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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Was that the old Tampa Dragstrip?
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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Wow, that is an awesome pic Stewart. The beginning of the golden years of drag racing funny car history......... Looks to be the exact car that Supercar Collectables has out in their 1:18 scale awb group. That was one of the three cars I bought when they first came out.
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Yeah, it's got a hemi........a REAL hemi.
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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This was early on as Dyno's car wasn't "cut up" yet. Here is a shot of it later on. Thanks for posting the shot!!
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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When I was there in 65, if I remember right, they had a light that looked like a street light to start the cars hung from two poles in front of the starting line at the finish. Also had flag men on each side to determine the winner by raising the flag on that side. ![](http://www.tamparacing.com/photopost/data/500/tampa_dragstrip.JPG)
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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Quote:
This was early on as Dyno's car wasn't "cut up" yet. Here is a shot of it later on. Thanks for posting the shot!!
Who is in the Blue 65 in the other lane?? Wasn't Robert Nace "Mr Plymouth"???
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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I recall my parents stopping by a track near Tampa when I was a kid. I sort of remember it being parallel to the highway. Was there an entrance off Highway 92? I seem to remember it being off the right side of the highway as we drive past in the right lane. I can't remember much else besides a dirt road and a mid-50s dark green Olds (of all things to remember). This would have been the early 60s. Stewart is like the Bob Hope of Drag Racing - Thanks, for the memories.... ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif)
Floyd Lippencott IV
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Re: PAPER TIGER 1965 TAMPA
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Guys...it seems to me that Buckeye Vernon (Vernon & Rowley) from Maryland wound up with one of the Tigers and won the NASCAR Winternationals with in it 1966. Then it was destroyed in an accident. Am I right, or is my memory playing tricks on me?
I think they also bought the stretch nosed 66 Cuda the next year.
"Old age and treachery trumps youth and enthusiasm, every time!" East Central Director / Chrysler Power Magazine www.reasbeckracing.webs.com
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